Links

General Disability

Administration on Aging: The Administration on Aging offers a factsheet to assist in improving chronic care throughout the life span of older and younger people with disabilities.
Association for Persons in Supported Employment: The Association for Persons in Supported Employment provides technical assistance and education to people involved with SE, encourages service delivery based on sound values and ethics, and is actively involved in legislative and policy change for SE.
Direct Support Professionals: The Direct Support Professionals site contains practical information to individuals who provide residential, educational, and vocational services to persons with disabilities.
Disability History Museum: The Disability History Museum’s mission is to promote understanding about the historical experience of people with disabilities by recovering, chronicling, and interpreting their stories. Their goal is to help foster a deeper understanding of disability and to dispel lingering myths, assumptions, and stereotypes by examining these cultural legacies.
Disability Resources on the Internet: Disability Resources, Inc. is an organization established to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work, and play independently. They have a searchable database that has links to hundreds of websites and resources.
Health on the Net Foundation (HON): HON’s mission is to guide lay persons or non-medical users and medical practitioners to useful and reliable online medical and health information.
Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation: IOS Press publishes the Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation. Electronic article copies are available for download by first searching for the journal and then selecting the desired article.
Montana Statewide Independent Living Council: The Montana Statewide Independent Living Council helps make independent living a reality for Montanan’s with disabilities by promoting and practicing a philosophy of consumer control, development of peer relationships and peer role models, self-determination, self-help, equal access, and advocacy in order to maximize independence, integration, and full inclusion of persons with disabilities into mainstream Montana.
National Organization on Disability: The National Organization on Disability promotes the full and equal participation of America’s 54 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. N.O.D. is a national disability network organization concerned with all disabilities, all age groups and all disability issues.
Untangling the Web: The University of West Virginia’s “Untangling the Web” offers resource links to hundreds of disability-related websites.
WebABLE: WebABLE offers Web accessibility technology, consulting, and training to organizations that have websites. Their services ensures that Web sites are fully accessible to people with disabilities and in compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.